Overton Windows.

Unfortunately, the White Nationalist marchers actually had a fair grievance that reasonable people could support - namely, opposition to the SJW Taliban fixation on cleansing the public square of ungoodcrimethought history.

It is a disturbing and sad commentary on where we are as a culture that taking the reasonable position that history should not be obliterated because of a passing totalitarian fancy has been so marginalized that it requires speech from the margins to make the argument.

And as I pointed out to a Democrat staffer, I am a proud Northerner and Republican who has zero support for the Democrat side of the dispute over slavery and treason.

I just despise people who destroy history more.

Allen West makes a good point about the urge to cleanse history in the name of fighting oppression.:

//This all began because someone decided, as other elected officials have across the country, to cave in to partisan political pressures and seek to erase American history. History is not there for us to love or hate, but for us to learn from and seek to not repeat its mistakes.

If there are those who truly believe we protect ourselves by trying to revise history due to false emotions, then we miss out on who we are as a nation, and our evolution. The statues of long since deceased leaders of the Confederate Army do not stand to remind anyone of oppression. And if a statue can oppress you, then I submit that you have greater issues.

I certainly did not appreciate former President Barack Obama taking a photo op in Cuba before the image of Che Guevara, nor do I enjoy seeing anyone wearing said image on t-shirts here in America…but I do not go into some whimsical state of “oppression.”

And so it is that we do possess in this Constitutional Republic a freedom of speech and freedom of expression. It would appear that said group who didn’t wish to see the statue of Virginian, General Robert E. Lee, who was a commissioned U.S. Army officer, graduate of West Point, and served the nation in the Mexican War, taken down did apply for a permit to hold a rally. We can dislike these individuals, but they took proper measures to secure permission to express their First Amendment right.//

Of course, by saying this, West and I will be accused of being White Nationalist sympathizers, which is very wrong, but will prove my point.

And to be clear, here is my creed:

"Whoever exalts race, or the people, or the State, or a particular form of State, or the depositories of power, or any other fundamental value of the human community - however necessary and honorable be their function in worldly things - whoever raises these notions above their standard value and divinizes them to an idolatrous level, distorts and perverts an order of the world planned and created by God; he is far from the true faith in God and from the concept of life which that faith upholds."

--Identity politics as seen from Rome on Passion Sunday, 1937.

Barbarians.

From PBS

The Ahmed Baba Institute, an Islamic learning center in the town of Timbuktu in the West African nation of Mali, holds thousands of ancient drawings and writings from the Quran and everyday life in this point along a historic Saharan caravan route.

On Monday, Timbuktu's Mayor Ousmane Halle said from Mali's capital Bamako that he had gotten word Islamist fighters had torched the library as well as his office before retreating. The Malian army, backed by French forces, are working on driving back rebel forces from cities they had taken over last year.